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gwdMaine
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Hmmm. 130 people out of approximately 2,000 in policy making positions? In 1975 it took around 10 months formy White House TS/SCI clearance to process. And I wasjust 17 years old with not much of a history to research.And I had already received a basic TS clearance becauseof the job I was in. Fast forward 40 years and I imaginethings are a bit slower. And I suspect the overwhelmingmajority are adults with no prior service in a positionthat required a clearance; so you're starting from scratch.One of the drawbacks of what happens when you bring business people in to run government.

This is just another example of running with anythingnegative about the current Administration and blowing itcompletely out of proportion.

And the e-mail server? When the Secretary of State, whohas more access to stuff then any of the 130 people inthe article, uses a private system to conduct governmentbusiness - and that system was most certainly compromisedby one or more foreign governments whose interests arehostile to those of the U.S.; that's a big deal. A reallybig deal.

For at least some of these people, it's not that the clearance is "incomplete," it's that the FBI has completed their process and won't grant security clearance. The president can override that. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/porter-security-clearance/553214/ No one is about to tell us which people those are.

Yeah, well, the FBI had no choice and said what it had to. Sonow we're in the realm of conspiracy theories and proving thisor that. There's plenty of intelligent and unbiased writingavailable that will make a case for or against. I'm not goingthere, but having lived the life, the best I can say is thatvarious organizations within the Government are treatingeverything found on that server as compromised. And again - that's a big deal.

Pretty much everyone involved will have to be dead for anumber of years before the whole truth comes out; if it everdoes.